Products

Asia Pacific Wire & Cable Corp Ltd.

LAN Cable

Category 5E Cable

Application

Cable is suitable for the transmission of analong voice and digital data of 1Gbps and cable should comply electrical performance of frequency up to 100MHz. For example T1, ISDN, 10BASE-T (IEEE 802.3), 100BASE-T(IEEE 802.3), Fast Ethernet, 100VG –any LAN (IEEE 802.12), 155/622 Mbps ATM, 550MHz Broadband Vedio and 100BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet network.

Construction

Category 5E UTP

1Conductor - Solid annealed copper wire
Insulation - Polyethylene
2Rip-cord - Nylon thread
3Sheath: Polyethylene, PVC or Low smoke free halogen compound.


Category 5E FTP

1Conductor - Solid annealed copper wire
Insulation - Polyethylene
2Rip-cord - Nylon thread
3Shield: Mylar tape, Drain wire, Polyester aluminum foil
4Sheath: Polyethylene, PVC or Low smoke free halogen compound.

Property

  • This cable is used for transmission of analog voice and digital data of 1Gbps.
  • Flame retardant grade: UL Type CM, Type CMR, Type CMP
  • Pairs: 4P
  • Temperature and voltage: UL 75℃ , 300V

Specification

Category 5E UTP & FTP

Conductor diameter (mm) Pair (P) Conductor diameter nom. (mm) Overall diameter approx. (mm) Conductor resistance unbalance max.(%) Test frequence (MHz) Attenuation Max. (dB/100M) Return loss Min. (dB)
            UTP FTP  
5E
(UTP)
4 0.511 5.1 5 1 2 2.5 20.0
4 4.1 4.1 23.0
8 5.8 5.8 24.5
10 6.5 6.5 25.0
16 8.2 8.2 25.0
5E
(FTP)
4 0.54 6.2 20 9.3 9.3 25.0
25 10.4 10.4 24.3
31.25 11.7 11.7 23.6
62.5 17.0 17.0 21.5
100 22.0 22.0 20.1


Cat. Test frequence (MHz) Near-end crosstalk Min. (dB) Power-sum Near-end crosstalk min. (dB) Far-end Crosstalk Min. (dB) Power-sum Near-end Min. (dB) Delay skew Max. (ns/100M) Propagation delay Max. (ns/100M)
5E 1 65.3 62.3 63.8 60.8 45 570
4 56.3 53.3 51.8 48.7 45 552
8 51.8 48.8 45.7 42.7 45 547
10 50.3 47.3 43.8 40.8 45 545
16 47.2 44.2 39.7 36.7 45 543
20 45.8 42.8 37.8 34.8 45 542
25 44.3 41.3 35.8 32.8 45 541
31.25 42.9 39.9 33.9 30.9 45 540
62.5 36.4 35.4 27.9 24.9 45 539
100 35.3 32.2 23.8 20.8 45 538